Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.

Loyalty to your country should never require you to lie about it.

A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy you.

Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering.

Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?

All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.